tao1776

The earth is home to over 7 billion people. 7 billion!  Look at it! 7,000,000,000 It is beyond comprehension.   Estimates are that over 100 billion people have lived and died on our little slice of Terra Firma. Looking at our planet from the vantage point of mars, if no one was there to point us out we would appear as nothing but another light in the sky. Pull back further, much further, and locate our place in the galaxy. What in the hell are we doing way over there? If you had to guess, where would you expect to find us?  Imagine the violence and blood that has poured out over so many tiny pieces of ground. The battle of Hastings, Agincourt or Waterloo.  Spend some time imagining the bloodshed that this little patch of ground has seen.  War. Plague. Religion.  How much time has been allocated for love, redemption or peace? Always the talk, the dream, seldom the reality. Like ants we busily bustle and fret over a million mundane things.  In